Last Updated on September 2024
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE TERMS OF USE CONTAIN A DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROVISION THAT REQUIRES ARBITRATION, WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY, AND WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING IN THE EVENT OF DISPUTES, AS SET OUT IN MORE DETAIL BELOW.
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If you do not meet these requirements, you must not access or use the Website. You understand and agree that satisfying the above requirements does not guarantee that you will receive access to the Website. In addition to the above requirements, EverSmith Brands and its affiliates reserve the right to change or include new requirements as deemed appropriate in their sole discretion without providing prior notice to you.
EverSmith Brands is based in the United States. We provide the Website for use only to persons located in the United States. We make no claims or representations that the Website or any of their content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to the Website may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Website from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
If there are additional terms associated with a specific online service or portion of the Website, you will be presented with those additional terms at the time you access the online service or portion of the Website (the “Additional Terms”). Those Additional Terms supplement these Terms of Use and are incorporated herein. To the extent there is any conflict between these Terms of Use and any Additional Terms, the Additional Terms shall control with respect to the specific online service or portion of the Website provided subject to those Additional Terms.
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EverSmith Brands IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INACCURACIES OR DEFECTS IN THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, COMMUNICATION LINES, INTERNET OR YOUR INTERNET SERVICE EverSmith Brands (ISP), COMPUTER HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, OR ANY OTHER SERVICE OR DEVICE THAT YOU USE TO ACCESS OUR WEBSITE.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM EverSmith Brands OR ITS AFFILIATES OR THROUGH OR FROM THE WEBSITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS OF USE.
You understand that EverSmith Brands cannot guarantee that use of our Website will be free from technological difficulties including, but not limited to, unavailability of information, downtime, service disruptions, viruses, or worms. Additionally, you understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the Website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of damage input and output, anti-virus protection, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WITH RESPECT TO DIRECT DAMAGES, AND WHERE THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS OF INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, AND OTHER DAMAGES ARE LIMITED OR PROHIBITED UNDER LAW, YOU AGREE THAT ANY AND ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, FEES, CHARGES, EXPENSES, OR LIABILITIES YOU SUFFER OR INCUR RELATED TO YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF THE WEBSITE THAT RESULT FROM ANY ACT OR OMISSION OF EverSmith Brands, ITS AFFILIATES, ANY EverSmith Brands’S LICENSOR OR SUPPLIER, OR ANY THIRD PARTY WHO PROMOTES OR PROVIDES A LINK TO THE WEBSITE SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE FEES PAID BY YOU DURING THE THREE MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, OR IF NO FEES WERE PAID OR PAYABLE BY YOU FOR SUCH PERIOD, $100.00.
THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS TO LIABILITY APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE TYPE OF DAMAGES OR CLAIMS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES OR CLAIMS RELATED TO (I) PERSONAL INJURY, WRONGFUL DEATH, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, INTERRUPTION OF SERVICE, OR LOSS OF DATA; OR (II) MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DELETION OF FILES, ERRORS, DEFECTS, DELAYS IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, OR (III) ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, WHETHER OR NOT LIMITED TO ACTS OF GOD, COMMUNICATION FAILURE, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO YOUR RECORDS, PROGRAMS, OR SERVICES, OR (IV) OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE WEBSITE. YOU AGREE THAT THIS LIMITATION APPLIES EVEN IF EverSmith Brands’s, ITS AFFILIATES, ANY LICENSOR OR SUPPLIER, OR ANY THIRD PARTY WHO PROMOTES OR PROVIDES A LINK TO THE WEBSITE IS NEGLIGENT OR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE LIKELIHOOD OR POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, LOSSES, FEES, CHARGES, EXPENSES, OR LIABILITIES.
THE PARTIES AGREE THAT THE EXCLUSIONS OF REMEDIES AND LIMITATIONS SPECIFIED IN THIS SECTION ARE ESSENTIAL TERMS, WITHOUT WHICH THE SERVICES WOULD NOT BE OFFERED, ARE A REASONABLE ALLOCATION OF RISK AND APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, AND APPLY EVEN IF ANY LIMITED REMEDY SPECIFIED IN THIS AGREEMENT IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
TO THE EXTENT THE ABOVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS RESTRICTED UNDER LAW, THE ABOVE LIMITATION SHALL BE APPLIED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER SUCH LAW.
If any part of these Terms of Use is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be so held to the minimum extent required by law, or removed from the Terms of Use, and except as set forth in Section 21 (Dispute Resolution), all other parts of these Terms of Use are still valid and enforceable. The parties further agree to replace such invalid or unenforceable provision of these Terms of Use with a valid and enforceable provision that will achieve, to the fullest extent possible, the economic, business, and other purposes of such invalid or unenforceable provision.
17. Accessing the Website. We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the Website, and any material we provide on the Website, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if, for any reason, all or any part of the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Website or the entirety of the Website.
18. Entire Agreement. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and EverSmith Brands pertaining to the subject matter hereof. They supersede all other agreements, communications, or representations, oral or written, between us, past or present.
19. Dispute Resolution. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS CAREFULLY BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE ARBITRATION OF CERTAIN DISPUTES ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND LIMIT THE PROCEDURES BY WHICH YOU AND EverSmith Brands CAN SEEK RELIEF. ARBITRATION USES A NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR INSTEAD OF A JUDGE OR JURY, ALLOWS FOR MORE LIMITED DISCOVERY THAN IN COURT, AND IS SUBJECT TO VERY LIMITED REVIEW BY COURTS. ARBITRATORS CAN AWARD THE SAME DAMAGES AND RELIEF THAT A COURT CAN AWARD. ANY ARBITRATION UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW; CLASS ARBITRATIONS, CLASS ACTIONS OR REPRESENTATIVE ARBITRATIONS ARE NOT PERMITTED. HOWEVER, IN ARBITRATION, BOTH YOU AND US WILL BE ENTITLED TO RECOVER ATTORNEYS’ FEES FROM THE OTHER PARTY TO THE SAME EXTENT AS YOU WOULD BE IN COURT.
A. Agreement to Arbitrate and Jury Waiver. You and EverSmith Brands mutually agree to resolve Disputes (as defined below) with EverSmith Brands in arbitration, as set forth in more detail below. Both you and EverSmith Brands waive the right to a jury trial on any Disputes, to the fullest extent of the law. The word “Disputes” means any disputes, claims, suits, actions, causes of action, losses, liabilities, and/or demands in any way relating to, in connection with, or arising out of the Website, use of any cookies, pixels, web beacons, or similar technologies, data or information privacy, sharing, or security concerns, incidents, or breaches, or these Terms of Use, including any past, currently pending, existing, or future Disputes of any kind. “Disputes” do not include, and this arbitration and class waiver provision does not apply to, claims by or against EverSmith Brands employees related to the terms or conditions of their employment, claims by EverSmith Brands patients for alleged medical malpractice, wrongful death, or similar personal physical injury or survivor claims related to a patient’s medical care at EverSmith Brands or by a EverSmith Brands, individual actions brought in small claims court for disputes fully within the scope of such court’s jurisdiction, or claims in which either party seeks injunctive or other equitable relief to prevent the alleged unlawful use of copyrights, trademarks, trade names, logos, trade secrets, or patents.
B. Class Action Waiver. To the maximum extent allowed by applicable law, you and EverSmith Brands agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, on an individual basis, and that you and EverSmith Brands each waive any right to pursue claims on a class, collective, non-individual, mass, or consolidated basis or in a representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not join or consolidate more than one person’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of representative, collective, non-individual, mass, or class proceeding. Nothing in these terms should be read to allow class arbitration. Any claim that all or part of this Class Action Waiver is unenforceable, unconscionable, void or voidable may be determined only by a court of competent jurisdiction and not by an arbitrator. All other disputes with respect to whether this Dispute Resolution provision and its terms are unenforceable, unconscionable, applicable, valid, void or voidable shall be determined exclusively by an arbitrator, and not by any court.
C. Pre-Arbitration Notice and Good Faith Negotiations. You and EverSmith Brands also agree that each party will notify the other in writing of any Dispute before initiating arbitration, so that we can try to resolve the Dispute informally and individually. Notice by EverSmith Brands will be sent to you at your last known street and email addresses on file, and notice by you to EverSmith Brands will be sent by mail to EverSmith Brands’s Legal Department, 1515 Mockingbird Lane, Suite 410, Charlotte, NC 28209, Attn: Chief Legal Officer. The notice of Dispute must be specific and individual to you and include your name, street address, telephone number, and email address used for access to the Website, as well as a brief description of the Dispute, the amount of money (if any) at issue, and the specific relief sought. The notice must be signed and include your handwritten signature or the handwritten signature of a EverSmith Brands employee, as applicable, depending on which party is initiating the Dispute. You and EverSmith Brands then agree to negotiate personally, individually, and in good faith to try to resolve the Dispute. If and only if we cannot resolve the Dispute within thirty (30) days after the notice is received, then either party may commence an arbitration proceeding with a written demand for arbitration. Any limitations period will be tolled from the date the Dispute is noticed to the other side until the expiration of this thirty (30)-day period. Compliance with this Pre-Arbitration Notice provision is a condition precedent and requirement for initiating any arbitration proceedings.
D. Arbitration Procedures. To make arbitration as cost-efficient for the parties as possible, the parties agree to initiate any arbitration without using an arbitration service EverSmith Brands or administrator and to instead serve directly on the other party a written arbitration demand setting forth the relevant facts and claims. The demand will be specific and individual to you and include the information and signature set out in the Pre-Arbitration Notice provision above. The delivery addresses for service of the written arbitration demand are the same as set out in the notice paragraph above. The arbitrator will be selected through mutual agreement of the parties, and the arbitrator will be a licensed attorney or a retired judge. The parties may use an arbitrator from the lists of court-approved neutrals listed on the Website for the U.S. District Court for the North Carolina (https://www.nccourts.gov/courts/district-court) or another mutually agreed-upon arbitrator, and the court will appoint an arbitrator under 9 U.S.C. § 5, if the parties cannot agree. The arbitration will be conducted in Mecklenburg; your county of residence; or another mutually agreed location, and the arbitrator will have the discretion to direct a reasonable exchange of information by the parties, consistent with the expedited nature of arbitration. Any documents exchanged will not be used or shared outside of the arbitration process without the prior written consent of the parties or as required by law. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, all arbitration proceedings will be confidential to EverSmith Brands and you, and closed to the public and anyone not a party to the proceeding. The arbitrator will have the authority to award monetary damages and other remedies on an individual basis only to the extent available under applicable law and consistent with and subject to the limitations set forth in these Terms of Use. Also, to the fullest extent allowed by law, the arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of you or EverSmith Brands and only to the extent necessary to provide the relief warranted by your or EverSmith Brands’ individual claim. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. Except as modified by these terms, the parties agree to conduct their arbitration pursuant to the JAMS General Arbitration Rules and Procedures, available here.
E. Arbitration Fees. The party initiating the arbitration will pay any filing, case initiation, or arbitrator fees, up to the amount that would be required to pursue the same claim in the U.S. District Court for North Carolina. For individual damages claims with less than $25,000 at issue, EverSmith Brands will pay the additional, reasonable fees and costs of arbitration. For claims with more than $25,000 at issue, or where a party seeks injunctive or declaratory relief, the parties will share the fees and costs of arbitration equally. The parties’ good faith negotiation of reasonable fees with the arbitration EverSmith Brands is authorized as needed. If the arbitrator determines that your or our claim(s) are frivolous, the party bringing the frivolous claim(s) will reimburse EverSmith Brands the other party for any amounts that the other party paid for the arbitration.
F. Federal Arbitration Act. These Terms of Use affect interstate commerce, and the interpretation and enforceability of this Dispute Resolution provision will be substantively, procedurally, and exclusively governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq., to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, except as modified by these Terms of Use.
G. Forum Selection. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and EverSmith Brands agree to proceed in state and federal courts covering North Carolina, and you agree to be subject to personal jurisdiction there, waiving any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum defenses or objections to those courts. If EverSmith Brands does not enforce any rights under these Terms of Use at any point, it will not be deemed a waiver of any provision or right under these Terms of Use.
20. Limitation of Time to File Claims. Any action, claim or dispute you have against us must be filed within one (1) year, unless prohibited by applicable law. The one-year period begins when the claim or notice of dispute first could be filed. If a claim or dispute is not filed within one year, it is permanently barred.
21. Contact Information. For all questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us at EverSmith Brands hr@clintarholdings.com.